From: mouss (usebsdfree.fr)
Date: Mon May 02 2005 - 15:55:39 CDT

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Mike,

It is considered bad practice to "hijack a thread", that is, to start a
new conversation by replying to an unrelated message.

some people use a threaded view of messages, so

- if they don't consider the thread as interesting/.../, they will just
skip it, and thus skip your message (they won't even notice it)

- if they are focusing on the thread, they will skip any message that is
irrelevant to that thread

- they can get angry because of hijacking and won't be open to help

also, this creates a problem for the archives (where it is generally
desirable to view message threads in a coherent way).

Kind regards

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